Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by impersonating a client token which could lead to the bypassing of MTP self-defense.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-10817 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) prior to 16.0.32 allows a local user to gain elevated privileges by impersonating a client token which could lead to the bypassing of MTP self-defense.
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Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:45:00 +0000

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Title Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP) Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee Total Protection (MTP)

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: trellix

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-03T19:14:09.739Z

Reserved: 2021-01-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-23891

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-12T09:15:07.437

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:52:00.880

Link: CVE-2021-23891

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